| Saxmundham Stradbroke Wilby |
| sa 28 ja 12 |   This postcard of Dennington shows that around 1943 the village didn't go as far as having a garage but the shop sold petrol, hand pumped of course and though perhaps we should know where the windmill in Sweffling was we don't.
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| It's the second (we think) open mike night at the Framlingham Castle Inn tomorrow. |
| fr 27 ja 12 | The KIngston digest is going out today. Click  the postie to get your free copy. (Pix still rendering without margins in Outlook 2007/10 ... Microsoft are a bunch of knobs aren't they? ... but then you knew that.) |
| Now would be a good time to make us your home page.  |
|  .gif "Google Chrome history list") Google Chrome is unquestionably the best web browser but we miss in IE that pull down by the Back and Forward buttons that shows where you've been and lets you to jump a whole load of clicks ... but no, in Chrome if you click AND HOLD or right click on a Back or Forward button you can do the same thing.
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| th 26 ja 12 |  This fluff of incredibly soft white fur is Kingston; Holeigh his teenage owner likes to give her rabbits names with royal connections. Last Sunday in Dennington village hall Kingston came second in the Netherland Dwarf Red Eye White U5(months) class, Holeigh said she hadn't expected him to do any better as he's still very young. The Central Suffolk Rabbit and Cavy Fancy are back in Dennington Sunday 1st April.
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|  Guess Who 18? So far two clues.
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| we 25 ja 12 | Volunteer helpers WANTED in the Aldeburgh Sue Ryder. |
| With any luck we should be getting 12,000+ visitors again this month. |
| tu 24 ja 12 |  Getting a good response on the board to a drastic plastic query about Strada sports cars built on the Carlton Ind Est in Saxmundham during the 60s.
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| We haven't heard about any Burns Night celebrations tomorrow nearthecoast but we do know that Friday Grethic/Farctum is hosting a quiz at the Saxtead Old Mill. |
| su 22 ja 12 |  ♫The Maverick concerts used to be at the Easton White Horse but the function room at the back of the Framlingham Crown is bigger and early last night promoter Paul Spencer was already jubilant at the near heaving turn out for his first show there. Ukulele goddess Lucy Sampson now supported by bass player Ian Bearcroft delighted, the Henry (they're not really) Brothers at the end of their set sang without mikes and Brooks Williams who might be described as a light tenor played guitar with the deceptive ease and authority that only comes with having done it forever. Maverick's back in Fram 10th Feb with Brigitte DeMeyer.
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| sa 21 ja 12 | BT poking about on the road between Parham and Framlingham in two places, hopefully they're upgrading the broadband from totally rubbish to a bit useless. |
| How to promote your event on nearthcoast. |
| fr 20 ja 12 |  James Tomlinson is the son of actor the late David Tomlinson of Bedknobs and Broomsticks and for the past 18 years James has been the posh Woodbridge furniture shop James Adam. Since 2001 the shop has been by the traffic lights at the back of Budgens, but East Green Energy made an un-refusable offer for the premises and James Adam will close next Friday. It was lively in there today with customers taking fulsome advantage of the everything must go policy.
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| th 19 ja 12 | The police specials recruitment in Framlingham was the hottest ticket in town  last night. Serving officers kept bringing in more chairs and in the end had remove one of the coffee and biscuits tables to make even more chair space. More potential lady recruits than you might expect some of whom had sensibly brought their dads. Reckon last night will swell the present county establishment of some 350 specials. |
| we 18 ja 12 | The Framlingham Castle Inn have posted a vid of Sunday's open mike night on YouTube, their next open mike night is Sunday week the 29th. |
| near the coast ~ this web site |
